PHILIPSBURG--The Fire Department had to come to the rescue on Monday when a bush fire in a yard on Bush Road suddenly spread to a nearby building due to high winds.

The building was a storage shed in the yard of Ernest Hotel. The hotel is currently under restoration and the shed was believed to have contained items such as buckets of paint that potentially could cause hazardous gases in a fire.

Fire Officer Pauletta confirmed the incident. "Around 11:45am on March 2 the Fire Department received a call to a bush fire on Bush Road. A small unit arrived minutes after; however, at that time it became clear that a wooden storage unit had become engulfed in flames. The unit called for backup and by ...